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Definitely not composed by Sayyed Darwish, although he did compose a number of muwashshahat, and the earliest extant recordings of it are from 1912-ish. Knowledgeable Egyptian musicians all seem to agree on a 19th century origin for the melody, although I'm fairly sure I've seen it attributed to another composer of that era too - possibly Mohammed Othman.